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Iiumcdialely after I)eiiii;" thus lei^islated out of office he was appoiuted 

 one of the astronomers to represent the United States in the settlement 

 of the Canadian l)oundary. 



From 18 19 to 1.832 attempts were made at various times h}- the Navy 

 Department to stirvey several portions of the coast. A few detached sur- 

 veys were made, but no general S}'stematic work was attempted, and the 

 result was not on the whole creditable. In 1S28 the Hon. S. L,. Southard, 

 of New Jersey, at that time Secretary of the Navy, in response to resolu- 

 tions of inquiry from the House of Representatives, admitted that the 

 charts prodttced by the Navy were tinrelial)le and tmnecessaril}- expen- 

 sive, and declaring also that the plan which had been employed was 

 desultory and tmproductive, recommended that the provisions of the law 

 of 1807 shotild be restnned. 



In 1832 Congress passed an act reorganizing the surveys on the okl 

 plan. 



AN ACT to carry into effect the act to ])rovide for a survey of the Coasts of the United States. 



[Skc. I.] Be it enacted, eie., That for carrying into effect the act entitled ".A.n act 

 to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States," approved on the loth day of 

 February, 1807, there .shall be, and hereby is, appropriated a sum not exceeding 

 twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Trea.sury not otherwise 

 appropriated; and the said act is hereby revived, and .shall be deemed to provide 

 for the survey of the coasts of Florida in the same manner as if the same had been 

 named therein. 



[Sec 2.] That the President of the United vStates be, and he is hereby, authorized, 

 in and about the execution of the said act, to use all maps, charts, Ijooks, iiLstruments, 

 and apparatus, which now or hereafter may belong to the United States, and employ 

 all persons in the land and naval .service of the United States, and .such astronomers 

 and other persons as he .shall deem proper. 



Hassler was now again appointed vSuperintendent of the Coast Stirvey, 

 and held his position until his death in 1843, the work for a short time, 

 at first, being a.s.signed to the Trea.sury Department, and in 1834 trans- 

 ferred to the Navy Department, and in 1836 again retransferred to the 

 Trea.sury, where it has since remained, its status being finally definitely 

 settled l)y act of Congress pa.s.sed in 1843, shortly before the appointment 

 of Alexander Dallas Bache, as the successor of the first vSuperintendent of 

 the Survey. 



At the time of Ha.ssler's death the stirvey had been extended from New 

 York, where it was begun, eastward to Point Judith, and .southward to 

 Cape Henlopen. 



It .should be mentioned that in 1825, during the period of the suspen- 

 sion of activit)^ Ha.ssler presented to the American Philo.sophical Society 

 a memoir on the subject of the survey, which contained a full account of 

 the plan which he had adopted, a description of his instruments, and a 

 hi.story of what had been accomplished up to 18 17. "This memoir," 

 wrote Professor Henry in 1 845 , ' ' was received with much favor by com- 



